State v. Bradshaw

TUCKETT, Justice:

After a trial de novo in the district court, defendant was found guilty of violating Sec. 76-8-305, U.C.A.1953, as amended, which reads as follows:

A person is guilty of a class B misdemeanor when he intentionally interferes with a person recognized to be a law enforcement official seeking to effect an arrest or detention of himself or another regardless of whether there is a legal basis for the arrest.

The defendant was sentenced to serve six months in the county jail. From the verdict and sentence the defendant has appealed claiming that the statute above referred to is…